Design a linearlayout or textview and any component in android with border,corner radius and gradient

We can design a linearlayout or relativelayout or framelayout... or even we can design a text view with this coding. The sample is given for linear layout, the result will be like this

here i had given corner radius for left top corner and left bottom corner for the linear layout, and i applied border for whole linearlayout.

For design the layout we need to use this xml file

layout_border.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<layer-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item>
 <shape android:shape="rectangle">
  <stroke android:width="2dp" android:height="2dp"
   android:color="#FF0000" />
  <solid android:color="#000000" />
  <padding android:left="1dp" android:top="1dp" android:right="1dp"
   android:bottom="1dp" />

  <corners android:radius="1dp" android:bottomRightRadius="5dp"
   android:bottomLeftRadius="0dp" android:topLeftRadius="5dp"
   android:topRightRadius="0dp" />
 </shape>
</item>

</layer-list>

and we need to set the xml file as background for the linear layout as

In the main xml

<LinearLayout android:layout_gravity="center"
android:layout_width="200dp" android:layout_height="200dp" android:background="@drawable/layout_border" />

For gradient effect you can use the below xml, this will not be in the source, you can put this file and set this as background for gradient effect

layout_gradient.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<shape xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:shape="rectangle">
    <gradient
        android:startColor="#ffa5ba"
        android:endColor="#ff92af"
        android:angle="150"/>

</shape>

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How to underline a textview in android

We can underline the Textview in android through this codings

Java

SpannableString contentUnderline = new SpannableString("http://www.android-codes-examples.com");
contentUnderline.setSpan(new UnderlineSpan(), 0, contentUnderline.length(), 0);
TextView mPage = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.page);
mPage.setText(contentUnderline);

Through the SpannableString we can underline the text, it can be static or dynamic text no problem, first we have to set the string to the SpannableString and then we need to setSpan, and then we need to set that variable to the TextView.